All Our Kin: Strategies For Survival In A Black Community"All Our Kin is the chronicle of a young white woman's sojourn into The Flats, an African-American ghetto community, to study the support system family and friends form when coping with poverty. Eschewing the traditional method of entry into the community used by anthropologists -- through authority figures and community leaders -- she approached the families herself by way of an acquaintance from school, becoming one of the first sociologists to explore the black kinship network from the inside. The result was a landmark study that debunked the misconception that poor families were unstable and disorganized. On the contrary, her study showed that families in The Flats adapted to their poverty conditions by forming large, resilient, lifelong support networks based on friendship and family that were very powerful, highly structured and surprisingly complex."--Product description from Amazon. |
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| Title | All Our Kin: Strategies For Survival In A Black Community Basic books Harper colophon books Harper torchbooks Harper torchbooks: History: Modern European |
| Author | Carol B. Stack |
| Edition | reprint, reissue |
| Publisher | Basic Books, 1975 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Aug 23, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0061319821, 9780061319822 |
| Length | 175 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / General Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies |
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